Barry B. Powell
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Barry Bruce Powell (born 1942) is an American classical scholar who is the author of the textbook Classical Myth. Trained at Berkeley and Harvard, he is a specialist in Homer and in the history of writing.[citation needed] Powell is currently the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1]
Works
Powell's study Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet advances the controversial thesis that a single man invented the
Powell has also translated a number of works, including the Iliad,[4] the Odyssey, the Aeneid and the poems of Hesiod. His Greek Poems to the Gods includes translation and commentary on Greek hymns from Homer to Proclus.
Books
- Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet, Cambridge University Press, 1991
- Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Homer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, 2nd ed. 2007
- Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
- Classical Myth, eighth edition, Pearson, 2014
Translations
- The Iliad, Oxford University Press, 2013
- The Odyssey, Oxford University Press, 2014
- Vergil's Aeneid, Oxford University Press, 2015
- The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, the Shield of Heracles, University of California Press 2017
- Greek Poems to the Gods, University of California Press, 2021
Notes and references
- ^ "Powell, Barry". Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "When the Ancient Greeks Began to Write", Archaeology, pp. 44–49 (May/June 2017)
- ^ Powell 2009, chapter 14; Review by L. R. Siddall
- ^ Review by Hayden Pelliccia, "As Many Homers as you Please", New York Review of Books (20 November 2017)
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